Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Their Majesties had all safely left France this week, attention shifted to the further trial at Aix-En-Provence of three Croat terrorists, accused as accomplices of King Alexander's assassin who was killed by police. Expert testimony proved last week that bullets fired by police in the wild melee winged eight persons while the assassin winged only three...
...united action by U. S. conservationists seemed pure fantasy. For years the people who want to look at animals and the people who want to shoot them have fought each other far more vigorously than they have fought for the preservation and replenishment of the nation's wild life resources. Meantime lakes have dried up, marshes have been drained, forests cut over, rivers polluted, birds, beasts & fish killed off by millions...
Last week, summoned by President Roosevelt, "Ding's" army marched peace fully on Washington, sat down 2,000-strong in the Mayflower Hotel for a North American Wild Life Conference. Conservationist Darling, who resigned as Chief of the Biological Survey last November after a discouraging year and a half spent trying to interest Congress and the Administration in his conservation program, led off the speechmaking. Cried he: "As our esteemed collaborator, Thomas H. Beck, has pungently remarked, 'Ducks don't vote,' and I might add that neither do conservationists. Our scattered and desultory organizations...
...vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources, Nevada's Key Pittman sagely observed: "We of the legislative branch of the Government feel the necessity for support, moral and sentimental, of our constituents in every matter." Darling & friends scurried through corridors, in & out of bedrooms, buttonholing stubborn delegates, arguing the cause of union...
...grasp of structure. The many moods Schnabel projects offer eloquent proof of the years he has devoted to the study of Beethoven. Peak performance last week was the abused Appassionata, a flawless realization of the composer at his stormiest which had all the more meaning because it never went wild. Because encores destroy the balance of his programs, this purist refuses to play them, just as he refuses to waste his time on frothy, mediocre music. Most pianists would be vastly impressed by such unanimous acclaim as his playing has received lately. But last week Schnabel was skeptical, saying...